Published in 1871 and written by 'A University Man' (George Carrington) the book describes the hardships and trials of four years endured by an educated man forced to do what he could to earn his living – shovel-work, photographer, shepherd, stripping bark, and on the diggings. There are also chapters covering coolie labour in Queensland, 'blackfellows', the bush and its natural history, and Queensland’s goldfields. There are snapshots and mentions of many Queensland places including Brisbane, Port Denison, Townsville, (Cleveland Bay), Rockingham Bay, Fraser Island, Maryborough, Rockhampton, and Burke Town.

Coolie Labour in QueenslandI had better begin to explain the term 'coolie labour', as understood in some of our colonies, and to tell what I can about it. Few people are, I believe, aware, that there has been carried on for some time, in Queensland and other colonies, an organized system of kidnapping, (immigration they call it,) from the South Sea Islands. That is to say, that large numbers of the islanders have been brought over from the islands to work on the cotton plantation

This ebook is a the same as the CD version from Archive Digital Books Australasia which is available from Gould Genealogy & other retailers. This CD contains high quality scanned images of the whole original volume, and has been bookmarked for easy navigation. Pages can be searched, browsed, enlarged and printed out if required.